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Lenifaye
@andreafaye.bsky.social
Director of Resource Organizing at Access Reproductive Care-Southeast. Queer & Quaker Chaplain in-the-making.

Durham now, Chicago forever.

https://andreafayehartrt.substack.com/
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The Jan 6 riot was successful. Maybe this will put to bed the constant admonition that "riots don't work."
January 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
“And the oil companies and tech broligarchs coveting them probably have more in common with the 20th century’s United Fruit Company and sugar barons than they think.”

It truly does feel like the early 20th century and the 1980s rn.
January 6, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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BREAKING: European leaders push back on Trump comments seeking Greenland and reaffirm the Arctic island “belongs to its people.”
European leaders push back on Trump's comments about a US takeover of Greenland
Several European leaders have pushed back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments seeking an American takeover of Greenland.
bit.ly
January 6, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Went to my first meeting 8 years ago but committed to the Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families program officially three years ago!

Happy 12-step anniversary to me—grateful for the ongoing gifts of recovery.

I am indeed worth it and it absolutely works if I work it.
January 5, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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I'm putting together a piece about how much investigative journalism actually costs. If you are an investigative journalist and you're willing to share (not for attribution) what you make and how many hours (years!) you put in, my DMs are open. Estimates fine, just want to get a sense of it.
January 5, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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The 20 biggest US banks made over $3 billion last year in overdraft fees.
US overdraft fees jump at big banks amid regulatory, economic shifts
Fourteen of the largest U.S. retail banks posted jumps in the income they generated from overdraft and bounced-check fees during the first nine months of the year, while two big banks reported sharp d...
www.reuters.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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once again encouraging you all to support billionaire-free, worker-run, independent newsrooms how and where you are able
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Thank you to @sixtyinchesfromcenter.org for giving this piece a home.

I really admire Ryan Sorrell and the @kcdefender.bsky.social— they move in alignment with a deep radical lineage and political values while also producing impactful work.

Grateful for this conversation and more to come.
Third Spaces for the Struggle: On Build, Miss Willa’s, and the Work of Belonging - Sixty Inches From Center
A conversation between one of the new co-owners of Build Coffee & Books in Chicago, and Ryan Sorrell at The Kansas City Defender as they save and revive Missouri's oldest Black bookstore, Miss Willa's...
sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?
January 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
One thing I keep thinking about as it relates to the United States long history of intervening in Latin America as part of its larger imperialism project is that if a leader really posed a threat to this country like Salvador Allende did w his real socialism the US would kill you.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able
January 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Please support @truthout.org, fam. The Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism is helping to foster and sustain an ecosystem of indy journalism, beyond the bounds of one publication. We need to think in those terms.
January 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
grateful for what stranger things says on grief, trauma and childhood but I wish the show had gone the Buffy route with the ending for El.

I still love the show. Maybe with distance I'll appreciate that part too.
January 1, 2026 at 9:28 PM
The weirdest place that both makes me feel nostalgic and stressed like no other airport.
December 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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This is not making America healthy again. This is sheer lunacy.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Chicago summers are amazing but it‘a the winters that make me miss her more.
December 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Absolutely wild watching every American media org incl progressive ones like NYMag remember Bardot as an animal rights defender and not mention her vicious racism

Meanwhile this article from Le Monde English is how I found out she died

It's hard to overstate how much American media fails Americans
“In the 1990s, after withdrawing from film sets, the star adopted those views and married Bernard d'Ormale, adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right Front National (FN), the precursor to today’s Rassemblement National.”
Brigitte Bardot's 30 years of sympathy for the far right
Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress – whose foundation announced her death on Sunday, December 28 – remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views.
www.lemonde.fr
December 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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When I hear this, I think of the people who were in the streets in Ferguson in 2014-2015 for 375 days STRAIGHT while the national guard was called up and people were being brutalized by cops in the streets for WEEKS. Complete amnesia.
“Why aren’t you in the streets” is a slap in the face to all of those people who been in the streets since Occupy
December 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Just tearing up because of the people in my life.

Took a friend to see my annual jazz show last night (a 16-year-tradition) and then ran 7 miles w a mother friend this morning. It’s more than what we did it’s how we get to be together.

Feeling blessed to end a tough year with such gratitude.
December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The amount of surveillance workers are being subject to to work from home is wild to me and feels like so many rights violations.

Like monitoring all the sites you go to?! Wtf.
December 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Ceremony held at hospital destroyed by Israel highlights toll of two-year war on Gaza's medical system.
Palestinian doctors graduate in ruins of Gaza's destroyed al-Shifa Hospital
Ceremony held at hospital destroyed by Israel highlights toll of two-year war on Gaza's medical system.
www.aljazeera.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
re-reading this 2025 recap from one of the long-time hearthline workers at access reproductive care-southeast and cannot recommend it enough. It’s a powerful reflection of what it means to work in reproductive justice and offers a glimpse of what’s ahead.

arc-southeast.org/2025/12/19/2...
2025 proved being in community together is our power | ARC-Southeast 2025 Healthline Reflections - ARC Southeast
This year we needed to connect to more clinics, people, and organizations, because the need has never been greater.
arc-southeast.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM